Color as movement, structure as expression
The painting "Rare Bird" (oil on canvas, 20x20 cm, 2025) is a composition of intense color contrasts and tactile structures, in which the motif unfolds not through line, but through color and materiality. Luminous yellow, rich green, deep blue and delicate violet tones combine to form a vibrant, almost sculptural depiction.
Instead of a direct depiction, the bird emerges through the tension between soft color gradients and dynamic, impasto accents. The colors flow, collide, overlap – they move like the motif itself, between recognizability and free form.
All important details at a glance
| Feature |
Details |
| Title |
Rare Bird VIII |
| Artist |
Mark Hellbusch |
| Size |
20x20 cm |
| Year |
2025 |
| Colors |
Green, yellow, blue, violet |
| Style |
Abstract animal painting |
| Technique |
Oil on canvas |
| Motif |
Bird |
| Shipping |
free |
| Theme |
Dynamics, interplay of color, movement |
The visible painting process – art in motion
A special element of this work is the visible artist’s palette, which is directly integrated into the composition. The thick, relief-like areas of paint are a reminder that painting is a process – a constant engagement with form, material, and movement.
Through the deliberately applied layers of paint and spatula marks, a three-dimensional effect is created that makes the bird feel almost tangible. The dialogue between surface and structure generates an image depth that changes depending on the incidence of light.
Between figuration and abstraction
Like many works in this series, “Rare Bird VIII” moves along the boundary between representational depiction and pure color composition. The color explosion does not allow the motif to remain in static calm, but instead suggests movement, change, energy.
The bird seems to emerge from the paint itself – a brief moment of appearance that could dissolve again at any time.
An artwork for the senses
This work challenges the gaze – it resists a single, clear reading and instead invites you to explore the surface, feel the rhythm of the colors and engage with the moment of its creation.
Here, color is not just a means of depiction but becomes a carrier of expression itself—sometimes gently flowing, sometimes applied with force, always in dialogue with the light.
